Overview In this activity, students develop their understanding of what makes an effective photo prompt. In groups, they create new photo prompts for their peers. Description The students now understand how a photo prompt works. Let them reflect on what you need to make a good prompt. What makes them striking or effective? Are they Full Article…
First Impressions
Overview Students begin to experiment with creating digital artefacts and are invited to join an on line community where they can post their work safely. Description Set up a Google+ community for the project. You will need a Google account if you haven’t got one already. Give the community account an appropriate name e.g. Class Full Article…
Photography
PROJECT Curricular Areas: You could do this as part of a language course (first or second language) but it works best as a cross curricular (Art/Language/PHSE) unit. It can easily take a term to complete. Learning Opportunities & Skills: This project gives students the opportunity to work on several core skills such digital, social & civic competence, Full Article…
Infographics
With an Infographic, data can be visually represented in an attractive way. An Infographic tells more about the data than lots of numbers would do. Just one look at the infographic should be sufficient to have an impression of what the data means and what’s going on actually. That’s why infographics are gaining in popularity Full Article…
Haiku Deck
Have just been looking at Jeroen Hendrick’s blog mediaatelier. Jeroen is one of the Taccle team but also has his own website and there are some great posts on there. It’s in Dutch but it took me about ten minutes to run his category list through Google translate, click on a category I fancied, find a Full Article…
Give students a voice with Flipgrid
Flipgrid is an interesting application for asynchronous communication. It was developed by the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota. Flipgrid allows a teacher (or account holder) to post a short written question and students can answer that question with a video message that is limited to 90 seconds. All the video responses end Full Article…